as in vague
not seen or understood clearly
a blurry image in the foreground of the photograph
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Recent Examples of blurry
The line separating the two is blurry, as both star types experience winds and ejecta before dying.
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Big Think, 9 Mar. 2026
But a close reading of the contract—the portions of it that OpenAI has shared with the public, anyway—indicates that the lines are, in fact, blurry.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2026
There’s talent among the Wizards’ youth, but right now, Sarr, Johnson, George, Bilal Coulibaly and Will Riley are all still blurry.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
But in a world with an endless and rapid trend cycle, the lines between timeless and outdated can become blurry.
—Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Mar. 2026
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Big Think, 9 Mar. 2026
But a close reading of the contract—the portions of it that OpenAI has shared with the public, anyway—indicates that the lines are, in fact, blurry.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2026
There’s talent among the Wizards’ youth, but right now, Sarr, Johnson, George, Bilal Coulibaly and Will Riley are all still blurry.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
But in a world with an endless and rapid trend cycle, the lines between timeless and outdated can become blurry.
—Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for blurry
Adjective
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The attack came hours after Saree signaled in a vague statement Friday that the rebels would join the war.—
Samy Magdy,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Mar. 2026
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These designations are, first and foremost, vague.—
Chris Wiley,
New Yorker,
28 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The goal is to make the satellites too faint for the human eye and telescopes to see.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
23 Mar. 2026
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It's achieved substantial improvements in tasks like reconstructing the universe’s initial conditions, cleaning up foreground contamination from faint cosmic signals, and fine-tuning physics in N-body simulations.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
22 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Some people who live in the Denver metro area on Thursday afternoon were making calls to 911 after skies became noticeably hazy and winds kicked up.—
Jesse Sarles,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2026
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The new tunes showed an evolving sound while maintaining the band’s distinctive hazy, atmospheric tone.—
Travis Pinson,
Dallas Morning News,
26 Mar. 2026
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“Blurry.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blurry. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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